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In any “trade war,” the most important thing to remember is the limit of the martial metaphor. When a foreign company sells Americans something they choose to buy, it is not an act of aggression. Trade negotiations aren’t a zero-sum game in which one country wins and the other has to lose.
The point is being forgotten right now, and not just by protectionists. Practically everyone is saying that President Donald Trump is …
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Research has shown that education and employment programming for prisoners improves postprison employment and delivers a positive return on investment.
Education programming for prisoners has generally produced favorable outcomes for prison misconduct and recidivism. The effects of employment programming on prison misconduct and recidivism have been mixed.
Based on existing evidence, policymakers could consider reinstituting Pell Gr…
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In 2016, FBI Director James Comey testified twice before Congress regarding concerns that new technology was allowing criminals to “go dark” — that the use of encryption was making it difficult for law enforcement agencies to access evidence. The FBI used its investigation into the 2015 San Bernardino terror attack to highlight its desire for “backdoor” access to encrypted technologies, as the bureau was unable to access the iPhone owned by one of the attackers, Syed Rizwan Farook. ...

In a long essay in National Review this month, Michael Lind issues a call to arms. We are in a new Cold War with China, and must respond accordingly. Geopolitics and geo-economics must be one; the neoliberal Washington Consensus of the post-Cold War era no longer cuts it. Here’s what he says we need in its place:
Instead of letting state-capi…
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The fate of the Dreamers is an issue that has come back to life in Congress, thanks to aggressive action by a small group of House Republicans. Why now? “We’re boiling over,” said Representative Fred Upton of Michigan. “It’s got to get done.”
The 16-term Republican is right. Congress needs to resolve the status of the young migrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children.
Momentum had ground to a halt — until about 20 or so House Republicans recently def...

AEI’s Frederick Hess discusses how his recent study found that mainstream media was more favorable to education proposals by the Democrat-led government in 2009, than the Republican-led government in 2017.
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Chairman Arrington, Ranking Member O’Rourke, and distinguished members of this subcommittee:
Thank you for the opportunity to appear here today, as you consider tangible measures to uplift our nation’s veterans in their transition from war to work and successful civilian lives. It is an honor.
Veterans are the unacknowledged pR...

There are good reasons for current tensions in the transatlantic partnership. Whether it is the Iran Deal or the location of the US Embassy in Israel, the Trump administration sees the world differently than most of America’s European partners — and they have the political mandate to act accordingly.
That hardly justifies picking fights with Europeans based on shoddy or nonexistent reasoning. A case in point: the threat of imposing tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from the&...

Wednesday marks the deadline in Iraq for reporting incidents of voter fraud. Iraqis from across the political spectrum all say that incidents of cheating were higher this time than in any of Iraq’s previous elections, and most blame irregularities and problems with a new electronic voting system. While it is a truism that Iraqis disappointed in their results often imagine cheating rather than acknowledge their own failures to appeal to a broader electorate, there is enough anecdotal evidenc...

U.S.-Venezuela relations – already at a low point – worsened Tuesday when President Nicolas Maduro ordered the top two U.S. diplomats to leave Venezuela following his fraudulent re-election Sunday.
Maduro expelled U.S. Charge D’affaires Todd Robinson and his deputy, Brian Naranjo, after accusing them of trying to sabotage the presidential election and conspiring against his government. The U.S. offic&...

North Korea, the world’s nuclear-armed auto dealership from hell, is turning up the high-pressure sales tactics. After months of charm that had secured Kim Jong Un a summit with President Trump in Singapore next month, Mr. Kim has now pivoted without warning. Pyongyang canceled meetings with South Korea, complaining of military exercises with the U.S., which Washington promptly called off at Seoul’s request. North Korea is also threatening to scrap the Singapore parley unless denucleariza...

AT&T has given companies a lesson on why investors increasingly are seeking information about corporate political spending. For five years, investors have called on AT&T to tell them how much it was spending to lobby politicians at the state and federal levels. AT&T refused. Now, the…
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In 2016, FBI Director James Comey testified twice before Congress regarding concerns that new technology was allowing criminals to “go dark” — that the use of encryption was making it difficult for law enforcement agencies to access evidence. The FBI used its investigation into the 2015 San Bernardino terror attack to highlight its desire for “backdoor” access to encrypted technologies, as the bureau was unable to access the iPhone owned by one of the attackers, Syed Rizwan Farook. ...

In a long essay in National Review this month, Michael Lind issues a call to arms. We are in a new Cold War with China, and must respond accordingly. Geopolitics and geo-economics must be one; the neoliberal Washington Consensus of the post-Cold War era no longer cuts it. Here’s what he says we need in its place:
Instead of letting state-capi…
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Claire North’s new gut-punch of a novel takes place in a dystopian world where one monster corporation controls England, every service is privatized, and every life has been assigned a monetary value.
(Image credit: Eslah Attar/NPR)
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Claire North’s new gut-punch of a novel takes place in a dystopian world where one monster corporation controls England, every service is privatized, and every life has been assigned a monetary value.
(Image credit: Eslah Attar/NPR)
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